Word: parlorized
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...feel compelled to sort it all out. Why? To impose order on the culture jumble, perhaps to restore a reassuringly human scale: when Warren Beatty represents a peak and Geraldo Rivera the pits, the concepts of triumph and disaster have been safely domesticated. And, of course, to play the parlor game. (The Simpsons better than thirtysomething? Come...
...this is not an abstract parlor conversation about the differences between the sexes. The events of 1991 may have been unusual in their celebrated luridness, but they raised basic issues that touch everyone's life. A few observers noticed that in the wake of the Thomas-Hill confrontation, the analysis of the Palm Beach trial was slightly more nuanced, more sophisticated in its discussion of so charged an issue as acquaintance rape. The politics may have been vicious, but the Senate passed and the President signed a civil rights bill that will finally allow victims to collect punitive damages...
...William Kennedy Smith fits neatly into the usual daytime schedule of leering soap operas. For the same reason, it has turned out to be a test of whether TV cameras will turn the law into a brand of vaudeville. In a case full of senatorial bar hopping and a parlor game called Vegetable, it's already difficult to keep in sight the serious charges -- rape and battery -- at the trial's heart. It doesn't help when expert testimony on the alleged victim's underclothes is interrupted by a commercial for the Home Shopping Network...
...GIRL. Mack is back, but this time he's not home alone. He's an allergy- prone 11-year-old whose best friend, Vada (Anna Chlumsky), is a hypochondriac who lives in a funeral parlor. Dan Aykroyd, Vada's widowed, mortician father, learns about love and the living from his makeup artist, Jamie Lee Curtis. Directed by Howard Zieff (Private Benjamin), this sweet saga is both hilarious and heartrending. Don't forget the Kleenex...
...Dynamics of Religious Pluralism in the United States--with author E. Allen Richardson. At 3 p.m. in the parlor room at Phillips Brooks House...